Trash Worker Crushed by Compactor in Brooklyn

Trash worker crushed: A worker at a trash plant was crushed in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo on Saturday.

A photo shows the Dumbo section of Brooklyn on Oct. 30, 2012 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A teenage recycling plant worker was killed Saturday by a trash compactor, it was reported.

Luis Camarillo, 18, was working on a truck at a plant in the Dumbo neighborhood when the compactor on the back of the truck hit him in the chest, according to The Associated Press. He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

“The compactor comes down and he’s crushed,” a police official, who was not named, told The New York Times.

According to the New York Post, he was crushed by the compactor’s hydraulics system, a nearby worker said.

“The guy got squashed between the pay loader and the truck,” Tony Lima, who was nearby, told the Post.